Re: Failed file -- much wailing and gnashing of teeth!

2009-10-01 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/2 Ralph Palmer : > Thanks! I have a separate definitions.ly, and I eliminated the \include and > forgot about the \dwn and \up in the snippet. Fresh eyes can be a blessing. Yes, but lack of these definitions was NOT what caused your errors. At the point where lilypond expected an = sign, w

Re: tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread James E. Bailey
Ah, I misunderstood. Yes, you want \tieDown. If you'd rather, you can redefine \voiceOne so that ties are always down, but in multi-voice music, the ties follow the direction of the stems. Incidentally, setting \tieDown does not affect the stems. So no, this is not a bug, this is a feature.

Re: tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick McCarty
Hi Nick, On 2009-10-02, Nick Didkovsky wrote: > > I was using 2.11.37 when I reported this problem > I upgraded to 2.12.2 but the problem remains, unfortunately > I am reluctant to use tieUp tieDown because then I will need to > specify stem direction as well. These are things LilyPond has been

Re: tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread James E. Bailey
That's odd. I assume I get what you want with my install of 2.12.2On 02.10.2009, at 06:11, Nick Didkovsky wrote:Thanks JamesI was using 2.11.37 when I reported this problemI upgraded to  2.12.2 but the problem remains, unfortunatelyI am reluctant to use tieUp tieDown because then I will need to sp

Re: tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Thanks James I was using 2.11.37 when I reported this problem I upgraded to 2.12.2 but the problem remains, unfortunately I am reluctant to use tieUp tieDown because then I will need to specify stem direction as well. These are things LilyPond has been doing fine without my specifying and I'd

Re: Failed file -- much wailing and gnashing of teeth!

2009-10-01 Thread Ralph Palmer
Thanks! I have a separate definitions.ly, and I eliminated the \include and forgot about the \dwn and \up in the snippet. Fresh eyes can be a blessing. Ralph On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Francisco Vila wrote: > 2009/10/1 Ralph Palmer : > > I'm trying to make a minimal example of a problem, an

Re: Failed file -- much wailing and gnashing of teeth!

2009-10-01 Thread Tim Reeves
Ralph, It runs fine if you remove the unknown commands \dwn and \up. You may have left out an \include or definitions of those commands. (There is a command \dwn in arabic.ly which I suspect is not what you intended.) Regards, Tim Reeves > I'm trying to make a minimal example of a problem,

Re: [midi] [articulate] \stopTrillSpan, \staccatissimo, and \appoggiatura

2009-10-01 Thread Iain Nicol
Hi, [sorry about the earlier double post] On Thu, 2009-10-01 at 12:01 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hmm It should make it d8 c8 -- in Baroque and other early music > (which is my main area of interest), an appogiatura starts at the > start of the main note, and takes half its value. Maybe you wan

Re: Failed file -- much wailing and gnashing of teeth!

2009-10-01 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/1 Ralph Palmer : > I'm trying to make a minimal example of a problem, and I can't get the > minimal example to run. Can anyone tell what's wrong? Ralph: your example runs fine if I delete the \dwn and \up which are not defined. Maybe your editor has inserted strange utf-8 BOM characters a

Re: Trouble installing lilypond-2.13.4-1.mingw.exe

2009-10-01 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/1 Helge Kruse : > So I uninstalled the 2.13.0 with the uninstaller. But I got the same message > again. I can re-install 2.13.0 and uninstall it again to get a definite > state. But the error remains. Try erasing the installation directory by hand. -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.p

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-01 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/1 Federico Bruni : > I can't find how to put the music in a markup block.. > Could you give me a hint? http://lsr.dsi.unimi.it/LSR/Item?id=250 -- Francisco Vila. Badajoz (Spain) www.paconet.org www.csmbadajoz.com ___ lilypond-user mailing lis

Re: LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-01 Thread Francisco Vila
2009/10/1 Federico Bruni : > *REQUEST* > Where can I find the source file (.svg or whatever) for the LilyPond logo? > I could create a 96x96px image for the avatar of the group on Identi.ca (the > favicon on the website is a bit too small..) Here http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git

Re: [Issue?] hiding Accidental(s) on tied note(s) after a line break

2009-10-01 Thread Jonathan Wilkes
On Saturday 30 May 2009 10:23:31 pm Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > shortest note playing here.") > > (shortest-starter-duration ,ly:moment? "The duration of the > > shortest note that starts here.") > > + (hide-tied-accidental-after-break ,boolean? "If set, an accidental > > +that appears on

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Philippe Hezaine wrote: elision done here... Hi, There is an error in the typesetting. The author writes <> Write it: 8 Cheers. Thanks! one quick global search and replace and the code compiles cleanly and gives a good output. Patrick ___

Re: Automatically changing the absolute scale

2009-10-01 Thread Jethro Van Thuyne
On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Skippy wrote: once I am done, I would like to add 3 tones to each note, to output F# major (without having to do it note by note obviously…). Is there a way to do this ? Something like "\addtones 3" ? Hi Skippy, You can use \transpose c fis for that http://lilyp

Re: Automatically changing the absolute scale

2009-10-01 Thread Graham Percival
\transpose. Look in the Notation Reference, section 1.1. Cheers, - Graham On Thu, Oct 01, 2009 at 07:09:40PM +, Skippy wrote: > Hi folks, > > Thanks for this program, blahblah, let's shorten it : if I use it, chances are > that I like it. ;-) > > Here is my question : is there an easy way

Re: Automatically changing the absolute scale

2009-10-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi Skippy, is there an easy way to change the tonality of a lilypond file ? If [as your message implies] you mean TRANSPOSE, then yes: \transpose c fis' { \key c \major c d e f g } will give you what you want. If, on the other hand, you mean change the tonality/modality (e.g., from majo

Automatically changing the absolute scale

2009-10-01 Thread Skippy
Hi folks, Thanks for this program, blahblah, let's shorten it : if I use it, chances are that I like it. ;-) Here is my question : is there an easy way to change the tonality of a lilypond file ? I mean, say that I want to write some music I have in mind. Unfortunately, it is not in an obvious t

Failed file -- much wailing and gnashing of teeth!

2009-10-01 Thread Ralph Palmer
I'm trying to make a minimal example of a problem, and I can't get the minimal example to run. Can anyone tell what's wrong? + Begin Snippet + \version "2.12.2" % \include "english.ly" \header { instrument = "Viola" } VlaSndPosMusicII = { \transpose g c { \n

Re: Limit Number of Measures Per Line

2009-10-01 Thread Kieren MacMillan
Hi "oldwhtman", Is there a way set the maximum number of measures that Lilypond will use to build a line of music? As far as I know (Joe? Mats?) there's no setting like max-measures-per-system If you're really interested in such a thing, you could always submit (and possibly sponsor) a fe

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Philippe Hezaine
Patrick Horgan a écrit : Just out of curiosity, (since I don't play, nor read, drum music), I compiled this with lilypond version 2.13.4 on ubuntu. It built the output, but with many complaints like: GNU LilyPond 2.13.4 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... [8] Preprocessing gr

Trouble installing lilypond-2.13.4-1.mingw.exe

2009-10-01 Thread Helge Kruse
Hello, I read about the new version, so I wanted to give it a try. When I try to install it I get an error message: /\ |GNU_Lilypond 2.13.4 for Microsoft Win...| |Previous version of GNU_Lilypond found | |Unistall the old version first. | |

LilyPond group on Identi.ca

2009-10-01 Thread Federico Bruni
Today I found out there's a LilyPond group on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/group/lilypond I don't know if you guys like the social platforms.. Anyway, identi.ca is a free network service: http://autonomo.us/2008/07/franklin-street-statement/ *REQUEST* Where can I find the source file (.svg or wha

Re: tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread James E. Bailey
On 29.09.2009, at 15:03, Nick Didkovsky wrote: Hello Here's one measure of music with two voices on the same staff. Top voice has some notes that are tied. Bottom voice is an invisible rest. The stems on the notes are all going up. This is good. The ties are upside down however (frowns inst

Re: Wrong stem direction in first measure with appoggiatura

2009-10-01 Thread James E. Bailey
On 29.09.2009, at 16:14, Nick Didkovsky wrote: Hello Stems are going the wrong direction on the first measure of a score when a grace note is present. This is a known issue with graceMusic. \voiceOne has to be re-set after the grace note. Subsequent measures do not show this problem.

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-01 Thread Federico Bruni
James E. Bailey wrote: On 01.10.2009, at 16:50, Federico Bruni wrote: I wonder also if it's possible to put some text on the right side of a short and not ragged staff. I'd like to add a description to each effect (see attached .pdf). I don't know if it will work with what you're doing, but

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Patrick Horgan
Just out of curiosity, (since I don't play, nor read, drum music), I compiled this with lilypond version 2.13.4 on ubuntu. It built the output, but with many complaints like: GNU LilyPond 2.13.4 Processing `test.ly' Parsing... Interpreting music... [8] Preprocessing graphical objects... program

[midi] [articulate] \stopTrillSpan, \staccatissimo, and \appoggiatura

2009-10-01 Thread Iain Nicol
Hi, I've playing about with Peter Chubb's `Articulate' for improved MIDI output. (Thanks, Peter: I wrote a less ambitious file a couple years ago just for staccatos---and then accidentally deleted it.) Anyway, I've got a few suggested changes, with patches. The patches are against the copy of a

first half of slurs across line-break

2009-10-01 Thread David Nalesnik
Dear LilyPonders, I've found information on how to alter the second half of slurs which span a line-break, but I can't find anything about adjusting the first half while keeping the cloned half at the default. I've constructed a simple example showing what happens when I break a certain slur. In

Limit Number of Measures Per Line

2009-10-01 Thread oldwhtman
I've just started using Lilypond for it's excellent tablature printing capabilities. Is there a way set the maximum number of measures that Lilypond will use to build a line of music? It's a bit tedious inserting \break after every 3 or 4 measures. Lilypond cramps things in pretty tight sometim

Limit Number of Measures Per Line

2009-10-01 Thread oldwhtman
I've just started using Lilypond for it's excellent tablature printing capabilities. Is there a way set the maximum number of measures that Lilypond will use to build a line of music? It's a bit tedious inserting \break after every 3 or 4 measures. Lilypond cramps things in pretty tight sometim

Wrong stem direction in first measure with appoggiatura

2009-10-01 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Hello Stems are going the wrong direction on the first measure of a score when a grace note is present. Subsequent measures do not show this problem. The score: I have two identical measures. Each staff has two voices: notes are in the top voice and an invisible rest in the bottom voice. The

using lilypond for leadsheets

2009-10-01 Thread Peter Berlau
Hello, ufortuaneletey I lost all my Sheets I create with Lilypond in 2006 and therefore I not really use Lilypond since 2006 I need to learn all things new. I have some questions about: mostly I like to have a single staff with chords and, maybe, lyrics. I preffer Aebersold notation about Standar

tie direction problems

2009-10-01 Thread Nick Didkovsky
Hello Here's one measure of music with two voices on the same staff. Top voice has some notes that are tied. Bottom voice is an invisible rest. The stems on the notes are all going up. This is good. The ties are upside down however (frowns instead of smiles). This is bad. What am I doing wrong?

Re: problems with layout variables in 2.13.4

2009-10-01 Thread James E. Bailey
On 01.10.2009, at 16:50, Federico Bruni wrote: I wonder also if it's possible to put some text on the right side of a short and not ragged staff. I'd like to add a description to each effect (see attached .pdf). I don't know if it will work with what you're doing, but you may want to try

ChordNames position broken in 2.13.4?

2009-10-01 Thread Henning Hraban Ramm
Hello, with 2.13.4 my ChordNames line appears at seemingly random positions above or within the staff, i.e. the vertical positions is different in every line, but all chords in that line align; in 2.13.3 and 2.12.10 it works. Is this a known bug? Greetlings, Hraban __

Re: Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Gilles Sadowski
Hello. > Thanks in advance. BTW, this is what I did for her three exercises (just > beginning ;-). Is this maybe rewritable to shorthand in some case? Maybe > with repeats or so? Any help wouyld be appreciated. The shorthand for cymr8 cymr8 cymr8 cymr8 would be \repeat unfold 4 { cymr

Lilypond for drums

2009-10-01 Thread Paul Rijke
Hi there, I am brand new to Lilypond (and drum notation in particular). My daugther is taking drumlessons, and I want to print what she does in a nice formatted way. So I think Lilypond could be it. I was able to wite down her first lessons but I would like to see a big part and how it is

Re: adjusting first part of slur across system break

2009-10-01 Thread Mats Bengtsson
Trevor Daniels wrote: \once\override Slur #'positions = #'( 4 . 0 ) (Note that the slur positions are not continuously variable - changing them seems to cause discontinuous jumps in position sometimes. I don't know why.) Since LilyPond first prepares a list of possible slur shapes to consid